BeamKit is a front end development framework. It features not only the usual functionality for rendering your views, but also for making requests, application-wide custom events for building event-driven architectures, form validation, and more to come.
Beamkit is a mix of all the ideas that have worked well for the author in the previous years of experience. Kind of like putting lasers on sharks. The good stuff, so to say, all bundled together with a good measure of duct tape.
BeamKit is still a work in progress. It's usable as it is, but it's not in the final form. See the issue tracker for roadmaps.
- JSX-compatible DOM node creation.
- Component-less event-driven architecture with a simple pub-sub system.
- XHR requests with middleware-style plugins.
- URL-to-state (de)serialization for flexible routing.
- Efficient DOM diffing for keyed node lists.
- Compatible with Babel's
@babel/plugin-transform-react-jsxplugin. - Designed for imperative programs, the way JavaScript likes it.
- Designed for modern browsers (untranspiled ES6, no polyfills, no boilerplate).
- Extremely low footprint: 4KB min+gz (we aim at less than 1000 lines total).
- Latest Webkit-based and Firefox browsers
- No IE11 or any older version
- Creating DOM nodes using JSX
- Efficiently updating lists of DOM nodes
- Custom events
- Making XHR requests
- Client-side routing
- Browser APIs
For now, install directly from GitHub repository:
npm i https://github.com/foxbunny/beamkit/
Beamkit is released under the terms of the ICS license. See the LICENSE file in the source repository.